GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

As promised multiple times on forums, GNOME 3.2 beta2 was just released and guess what? We got it! Shinier and full of new features, noticeable are gdm’s brand new look, gnome-online-accounts, gnome-contacts, gnome-documents, epiphany web application support, new user menu and better chat integration. Along with that, nautilus received a new file previewer named sushi, feature that I like the most.

To use this new version you need to enable gnome-unstable repository, as top repository to pacman.conf:

[gnome-unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Have fun testing these packages. Like always packaging bugs should be reported on our bugtracker, anything else considered bugs should be reported to GNOME bugzilla.

NVIDIA users be aware that xorg-server 1.11 from testing is incompatible with the current nvidia driver, even with IgnoreABI. You can switch to nouveau or add xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-synaptics xorg-server-common xorg-server to Ignorepkg.

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Re: GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

Works here but i've a problem with gdm (i don't see them in bugzilla so i suspect there are related to my configuration). I don't know if it's the right place to report problems but, just in case...

Impossible to login via gdm : i enter my login and my password and gdm doesn't recognize me (BTW: the User administration tab in System parameters doesn't work either : it quits as soon as i try to edit the avatar and no login name is displayed for my account... I think it's related). I've tried with a brand new account: same thing

Re: GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

I've upgraded to 3.2, rebooted and after removing GDM managed to get into the desktop.

Apart from a few small differences in the theme I don't seem to have all of the new features. For instance nothing featured in this video is working - http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=y-8K8d_ak24 (like quicklists, or that library tab). The only zeitgeist related package I could find was libqzeitgeist. I read it was supposed to have integrated search on the dashboard too, but I'm not sure how to enable that.

I managed to get sushi to work by installing it, but can't figure it out for the other things.

Re: GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

themusicalduck wrote:

I've upgraded to 3.2, rebooted and after removing GDM managed to get into the desktop.

so gdm is broken for you as well? wtf

Apart from a few small differences in the theme I don't seem to have all of the new features. For instance nothing featured in this video is working - http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=y-8K8d_ak24 (like quicklists, or that library tab). The only zeitgeist related package I could find was libqzeitgeist. I read it was supposed to have integrated search on the dashboard too, but I'm not sure how to enable that.

stop looking at videos upload by noname users. zeitgeist is not in gnome and i believe never will be.

I managed to get sushi to work by installing it, but can't figure it out for the other things.

to use sushi, select a file in nautilus and press space

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Re: GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

try to remove and install gdm again, greeter.log is kinda small. in ~/.xsession-errors i see a lot of warnings related to your profile. have you tried to add a new user and see if is working?

themusicalduck wrote:

I've upgraded to 3.2, rebooted and after removing GDM managed to get into the desktop.

So,I created a new userI installed gnome-session package with the patches from the 2 commitsI re-installed gdmRestart dbus but gnome-shell crashes all time "Oh no something has gone wrong etc.." It prompted me to check the shell extensions for conflicts (and disable them) but they were disabled by default.

Re: GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

Good news, but if you don't want to see sushi in action, I don't think it's worth upgrading on a "running system" yet. The new GDM seems to be buggy (and the shutdown/restart option is missing there now) and the online account-feature (Google-Account integration with calendar, gnome-contacts, gnome-documents) didn't work for me.I also noticed that there's a problem with a Python3/PyGI-Script I wrote now:

There are some nice new ideas like better ability to resize windows or the notifications for removable devices, but nothing essential imho so far. Things like the new overview-design are not included yet.

Besides, sometimes a process (called something like gd-tracker-gdat..) often appears in conky and uses 50-100% of my cpu. Does someone know where this comes from/how to disable it?

Re: GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

ilike wrote:

Good news, but if you don't want to see sushi in action, I don't think it's worth upgrading on a "running system" yet. The new GDM seems to be buggy (and the shutdown/restart option is missing there now)

know upstream bug

and the online account-feature (Google-Account integration with calendar, gnome-contacts, gnome-documents) didn't work for me.

know bug. for now you need to start at least once evolution to work

I also noticed that there's a problem with a Python3/PyGI-Script I wrote now:

Hmh, it was supposed to work with python-gobject (since i'm a gtk-newbie, used the same syntax as in the gnome screencasts (from gi.repository import Gtk, ...) to include the modules - isn't this going to work in 3.2?). I know that this isn't a good solution but I'm a little bit confused because before the upgrade python-gobject was installed and I can't reinstall it:

Re: GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

I did this because pygobject 3.0 is out and can be installed in parallel with pygobject 2.28. in theory because python2-gobject2 2.28 from gnome-unstable doesn't include any gi support and only python-gobject 2.90.3 has, because the gi support conflict each other and upstream suggests to disable gi in 2.28.

I think you have problems because of that and you need python-gobject which you cannot use right now.

I think apps depending on python2-gobject can run fine with python-gobject (python3 version) but i never tested. I prefer python2 because gobject-introspection is python2 only and is better tested and It doesn't download another python version(bloat)

I'm still waiting that bug report to be fixed to make python2/python3 version installable in parallel. If this won't happen, i think i'll split the pkgconfig files out in separate packages instead of conflicting the main packages.(this is what opensuse and fedora do right now)

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Re: GNOME 3.2 beta2 available in gnome-unstable

Just out of curiosity... has anyone figured out how to prevent empathy from automatically logging in when you have used the online accounts feature with chat?

Even going into the settings for empathy and unchecking "connect automatically on startup" does not prevent empathy from logging on and setting status to "available" in the background as soon as user has logged into gdm.